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The 1-section of a countable functional

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Dag Normann
Affiliation:
University of Oslo, Blindern, Oslo 3, Norway
Stan S. Wainer
Affiliation:
University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, England

Extract

The continuous or countable functionals were independently denned by Kleene [9] and Kreisel [10]. They were intended as a suitable basis for constructive mathematics, and thus it is interesting to investigate various notions of recursion on the countable functionals.

There have been two main streams in this investigation, the study of countable recursion and the study of computability or Kleene-recursion.

Countable recursion is the theory of recursion on the associates. Gandy and Hyland [3] and Hyland [7] are good sources for the recent development of countable recursion.

This paper will mostly be concerned with Kleene-recursion on the countable functionals as denned in Kleene [8] and [9]. We assume some familiarity with the countable functionals and associates, as presented in Kleene [9], Bergstra [1] or any other paper on the subject.

Pioneering work with recursion in nonnormal objects was done by Grilliot [4], who proved that a functional F of type 2 is normal if and only if its 1-section (that is the set of functions recursive in F) is closed under ordinary jump, and if and only if F is continuous on 1-section (F).

Hinman [6] constructed a countable functional that is not recursively equivalent to a function, and thereby showed that recursion in nonnormal functionals is an extension of ordinary recursion in functions.

In [6], Hinman asked if there are functionals with topless 1-sections, i.e. with no maximal elements in the semi-lattice of degrees. This was answered in the affirmative by Bergstra [1], using a spoiling construction. Thus the class of 1-sections of functionals extends the class of 1-sections of functions.

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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1980

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